Green Apple Quick Step - Dirty Water Ocean (Video)

JUL 01 1993 · 12:00

Green Apple Quick Step - Dirty Water Ocean (Video) (1993) Era: Seattle Post-Grunge Emergence (1993) - Peak of Pacific Northwest alternative rock; grunge's commercial apex on Medicine/Giant/Reprise Records infrastructure A rare surviving promotional video from a critically noted but commercially underrecognized band in the Seattle post-grunge wave. The documented garbage-sluice location shoot is a distinctive and literal visual statement. Combined with its 1993 provenance and Medicine/Giant Records context, this video holds meaningful archival value as a lower-tier but culturally embedded artifact of the Pacific Northwest alternative rock moment. Context: Released in 1993 as the lead promotional video from Green Apple Quick Step's debut album Wonderful Virus on the Medicine label (backed by Reprise/Giant Records), 'Dirty Water Ocean' arrived during the peak commercial moment of Seattle grunge. The band was part of a close-knit Pacific Northwest alternative rock community that included contemporaries such as Sweet Water and Best Kissers in the World. The video's industrial garbage-sluice setting directly literalizes the song's title, reflecting the grunge aesthetic's embrace of urban decay and anti-glamour imagery. Filmed cheaply and practically, it exemplifies the era's low-budget promo culture for indie-adjacent acts on major-distributed boutique labels. Director notes: The video was produced in 1993 in support of the debut album Wonderful Virus on the Medicine label. Wikipedia documents that the band filmed a music video for 'Dirty Water Ocean' depicting the band performing in a garbage sluice. No director credit has been found in any publicly available source including Wikipedia, Discogs, Rate Your Music, AllMusic, or Apple Music metadata.